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9 replies on “One hour movie? No chance”

Sadly, iTunes does HD movies (and tv shows) as HD + SD, so you get both, and have to download both.

They never put a switch in to say “Only get me the HD one please”. Which kinda sucks.

In the UK, I can usually get a movie down (SD) in less time than it takes to watch it, but not always. Our new flat isn’t too bad (5meg/1meg DSL), but the old place in Canary Wharf was _shocking_ – 2meg/0.5meg, and 0.5/0.5 at peak times.

There again, internet is cheap here – from GBP 3.50/month to 12 GBP for most “unlimited*****” plans (which are not), up to 30 or so for an actually unlimited one. It’s not surprise than a good service can’t be done for 3.50.

Is it downloading from NZ or the US or Oz? Apple really has no excuse not to host them in NZ if they aren’t already, so that people can download them faster, and not have to worry about international traffic.

I would not hold out too much for UFB. I fully expect that it will all look good early on but that plans will become more expensive, over time, compared to what is available elsewhere. After all what is the point of innovating if someone hands you a 10 year screw-the -public-as-much-as-you-want card?

We will end up with 50Mbps Internet when other countries switch to some new technology in 4 years time that offers 10 times that speed. We will then end up being unable to partake of the new market that requires the 10x speed since we don’t have the infrastructure for it because some idiots that know f**k all about technology thought a 10 year long screw-the-public-as-much-as-you-want concession was a good idea and would encourage innovation.

By then a 1 hr movie with be 20GB in size and you will still be downloading slower than you can watch it!